Sanal Edamaruku, founder-President of Rationalist International, termed 'miracle mongering' by the Roman Catholic Church as an insult to human intelligence. He was speaking in connection with the canonisation of Pope John Paul II.

Natwar Singh did a disgrace to India by projecting it as a country of snake charmers and superstitious beliefs. Even a child can tell that he was trying to promote a religious con-man like Chandraswami thus denigrating the image of India.